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Monday, July 14, 2008 12:59 AM
Original article: Torture and the rule of law

you sit in school -

and the teacher leaves it up to you to pick a subject for your homework and you say you want to write about ‘the rule of law’ and America and the teacher smiles and says ‘this is mighty ambitious, but go ahead’ and you are not afraid because you have UT. And you sit down at home and thanks god its raining and you start writing about the FISA law and ‘lawlessnes’ and the attack on the ‘national character’ and you think a long time and

you think: Wait a minute! There is some kind of mistake here, because if there is one country which is really famous for its ‘lawlessness’ its America (remember the Wild Wild West) and if history is true the national character would be not ‘the law abiding citizen’ - it would be ‘Lawlessness’ and suddenly everything falls in its place – The Bush Ranch in Texas and his lying and his famous: We smoke em out crap. But if ‘Lawlessnes’ is the ‘national character’ a law like FISA would be a perfect fit in and I am getting confused and I go to my dad, because he had me you that ‘the Surveillance State’ is a invention of the communists’

and then my grandmother interrupts - she just flew in (from John Wayne airport) and she is furious because Obama had voted for this FISA law and she ‘as a conservative is not tolerating anymore this shredding of the Constitution’and your dad smiles and says ‘we might all be a little confused’ and we all have to eat our words one day or the other -´as long as they are not the four letter ones it might be helpful not to get a swollen head - because we all know what happens to people who get a swollen head. They hardly can scratch it anymore and they bang against a lot of posts. And if you write a blog and you have to watch out for every post which comes your way live is very depressing - and life should noy br do depressing - even for lawyers - that they can:t chuckle from time to time - like I chuckle when I read about ‘the World according to vegetables or motorcycles and my dad also once rode a bike but now it is stored in a barn in the Black Forest and this is kind of sad because there is no better motorcycleriding than in the Black Forest - lets say from

St Georgen to Baden-Baden and the bike still has Californian plates and if derbig wants to ride it one day he is so very welcome.

Monday, July 14, 2008 03:38 AM

the fakedoctor -

no - the most awesome post aka ever wrote was about castration - it still circulates at my school with the appendix:DO YOUR HOMEWORK!!

Monday, July 14, 2008 08:27 AM

dear ancient assyrian -

i just pray you won*t get a castration visit from aka - but if you do - don*t be surprised if she isn*t what she is supposed to be either. You know the Internet - everybody is what he likes to be - i for example pose as a innocent young girl but actually i am a102 year old russian transvestite who used to work as a truck driver in virginia and that*s where i also met aka the first time - he is a 22 year old Real estate agent from Kilmarnock, who is planning to get his sex change operation by end of this year in Rio de Janeiro - but he doesn*t have the funds yet and since the housing market collapsed he has two earn his money castrating calves (thus his experiencce) and the thing about Glenn - i think he has a big crush on him.

Monday, July 14, 2008 08:55 AM

ancient assyrian -

how could i be so blind - aka must be Joan - with this burning burning desire just to write like Glenn or to be like Glenn - and lets discard this Real Estate agent from Kilmarnock he probable was just an imposter.

Monday, July 14, 2008 08:56 AM

ancient assyrian -

how could i be so blind - aka must be Joan - with this burning burning desire just to write like Glenn or to be like Glenn - and lets discard this Real Estate agent from Kilmarnock he probable was just an imposter.

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